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Take a FREE virtual class on DB2

Leon — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 05:30:05 +0000

I know, every post on this blog seems to have word FREE in it. I talk about free DB2 Express-C, free book on DB2 Express-C, free Data Studio and a free webinar to go with it. Well, what did you expect from a blog that has “FREE” in its name.

The subject of this short post is the virtual class on DB2. And you guessed it, it is free. So click on this link and get a bit more detail on Susan Visser’s blog.

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Fiserv moves to DB2 and .NET

Leon — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 05:50:12 +0000

66 Credit Unions are now running on Fiserv's new platform built on DB2 and .NET. [...]

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The Great Cloud Computing Deception

Leon — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 16:50:14 +0000

"The Great Cloud Computing Deception" is what I wanted to call the webinar that we (IBM) will be doing on July 28 jointly with xkoto. But since we wanted to be civil we settled on a more politically correct "Scalability in the Cloud: Fact or Fiction?" for a title. Come register for this free webinar by xkoto and IBM. it will be time well spent. [...]

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What is new in DB2 Express-C: Clearing DB2 bufferpools

Leon — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 15:51:16 +0000

We are in the process of refreshing free DB2 Express-C to the new level i.e. v9.5.2. There are lots of enhancements that you will get as a result of this refresh. Customers that had DB2 Express-C subscription did have these enhancements delivered as part of FixPack 1 and FixPack 2. Now those of you that are using the free version of DB2 Express-C can also take advantage of all the goodness that the latest version of DB2 Express-C has to offer. This post is about a very small but sometimes very useful new feature in v9.5.2. At one [...]

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Cheap storage just got even cheaper

Leon — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 02:54:10 +0000

When a database person mentions storage, images of cabinets full of disk drives and cables come to mind. But, since in my recent post I promised to talk about cloud computing I figured I’d talk about a different kind of storage. I am talking about storage that you can’t see or touch; I am talking about storage in the cloud. When Amazon (the people that sell us books and CDs) launched their web services AWS, S3 was one of the first services to go online. S3 stands for “Simple Storage Service”. Amazon built out a very significant IT [...]

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On Cloud Computing, XML, DB2 and an iPod Touch

Leon — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 20:46:49 +0000

Last week IDUG, the International DB2 User Group announced its sponsorship of “The XML Challenge”, a world wide contest for both professional and aspiring (students) programmers. I don’t want to rehash all of the things about the contest here. Just go to the contest website and read about it. There are several ways to participate. You can record a YouTube like video hopefully of doing something productive with XML and DB2 and not just playing with a bottle of Coke and some Menthos.

You can submit a gadget. There is no strict definition of what a gadget is. [...]

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Where did my Data Studio go?

Leon — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 03:10:17 +0000

So, you downloaded the free DB2 Express-C and you have started to play around with it. Maybe you created sample database and started to explore it using DB2 Control Center. If you are a developer, you may find that DB2 Control Center does not quite fit what you think of a a development tool. It is more in tune with what a DBA might want to do. So, you may have taken our advice and downloaded the new IBM Data Studio. After all, it is free so why not! If you have not done this already, go get it [...]

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